Tristan Seligmann

@mithrandi

I'm a geek with an oversize ego and a disturbing amount of self-awareness, but probably not nearly as much as I think I have.

Johannesburg, South Africa
mithrandi.net/blog/
Joined February 2008

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    Aug 4

    Retries: magic way to turn errors into slow operations Timeouts: magic way to turn slow operations into errors

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    7 Mar 2014

    San Francisco described in a 1930s history book

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    Aug 27

    I came to get down I came to get down So get out your seats and jumper hound Jumper hound Jumper hound Jumper hound

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    Apr 29

    Crack any Master Combination Lock in 8 tries or less. You can also use 's tool:

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    Apr 13

    This scientifically accurate superhero comic is just the greatest. (cc. )

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    Apr 3

    "Few databases are fully compliant with SQL/XML:2006."

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    Mar 25

    Don't give people unsolicited advice. Unless you're me, because I've got the Eternity Stone and I'm not giving it back.

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    Mar 25

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    Mar 24 San Francisco, CA

    . practicing her PyCon talk - Where in your RAM is ‘python san_diego.py’ (awesome title)

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  10. Mar 9

    And for anyone that cares, python-cryptography 0.8 is in Debian experimental now :)

  11. Mar 7

    Axiom benchmarking on PyPy 2.5.0 (update of my previous Axiom-on-PyPy 2.1.0 benchmarks):

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    Nov 20

    "Is there any way to distinguish what you just said from 'go fuck yourself'?" "Levenshtein distance."

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    Feb 10

    So, I have a couple months. Any one need any software written?

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    Feb 7

    Slides for and my talk titled "Introduction to HTTPS: A Comedy of Errors" are here:

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    Feb 7

    HTTPS: A Comedy Of Errors with went really well. Can't wait to give the talk again at PyCon :-)

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  16. Feb 7

    Just completed: 2 hour debugging session (subtle potential-data-loss bug involving Python object lifetimes). Current status: exhausted.

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  18. Feb 3

    You don't feel the urge to reload and reload and reload until you get a perfect result, you just accept the setback and keep playing!

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  19. Feb 3

    Playing reminds me why I enjoy "permadeath" games: they're actually /more/ forgiving, because failure is expected.

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  20. Feb 3

    Had a hero die on the first mission (after the tutorial) of . Twice. Not even mad.

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